Mechanical Engineering Graduate Scheme - Transportation

Requirements: Achieved or on track to achieve a minimum 2.2 Bachelors/BEng degree or 2.2 Masters/MEng in Mechanical Engineering

Locations: Derby, Manchester, Swindon

Our Railway OLE Design teams provide designs from initial concept and early feasibility, including consultancy-based advice for Rail Electrification related project work and detailed designs and management for the implementation of Overhead Line Electrification while providing on-site construction expertise and support.

You’ll be a part of a team of experts in undertaking and developing layouts plans and details for electrifying new railway corridors; helping to provide design solutions for the structural and mechanical aspects of 25kV AC and DC railway electrification. This will involve mechanical design work, performing structural calculations, specifying the associated equipment, provision of electrification of our existing network, technical studies to develop cost saving ways to implement electrification and heavy, metro/light rail and tramway electrification.

Our portfolio of projects includes a broad range of high-profile clients, including Network Rail, Transport Scotland, Transport for Wales, HS2 and Irish Rail. We also work on a number of international projects supporting overseas railway infrastructure and metro projects.

All of this creates an interesting and varied pipeline of works that allows our graduates to develop quickly, backed by a well-established and strong technical network to support professional development and industry accreditation through chartership with professional institutions such as the IMechE.

Requirements: Achieved or on track to achieve a minimum 2.2 Bachelors//BSc/BEng degree or 2.2 Masters/MSc/MEng in Mechanical Engineering or Aeronautical Engineering

Locations: Derby

The Rolling Stock team offers a unique opportunity for passionate Graduate Engineers to make a significant impact in the rail industry. Our work is varied as we solve complex problems for our rolling stock clients across the full breadth of the rail industry, both in the UK and overseas, as the largest independent rolling stock consultancy in the world. You could find yourself carrying out feasibility studies for HS2, advising train operators on reducing carbon emissions, reverse engineering components for TfL or designing the installation of digital signalling systems onto heritage steam trains.

Our diverse and supportive team is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of experts in trains, trams, locomotives, and vehicles, offering a wide range of opportunities for you to become an engineering consultant in a variety of disciplines including mechanical/electrical systems, maintenance management, project engineering/management, systems, and strategy, structural/dynamic simulation as well as engineering design.

You’ll undertake a variety of tasks including:

• Supporting and leading on-site vehicle inspections
• Producing technical reports and carrying out technical investigations
• Present outcomes internally to colleagues and externally to clients
• Working with our clients directly, understanding their needs and creating the deliverables that will help them
• Arranging and managing internal and external meetings
• Producing proposals to help the team win work, including putting together estimates
• Managing projects, including tracking time and finances

We prioritise placing our people in the right roles that align with their interests and expertise and we are fostering a culture of continuous development towards Chartership and beyond. This means that whilst you are with us on the Graduate Development Programme you will have the opportunity to move between teams and experience different types of work to ensure you are doing work that is enjoyable and develops you in your career.

Requirements:Achieved or on track to achieve a minimum 2.2 Bachelors//BSc/BEng degree or 2.2 Masters/MSc/MEng in Mechanical Engineering or Aeronautical Engineering

Locations: Birmingham, Derby, Manchester

You’ll join us as a Graduate Assurance Engineer contributing to the success of the Safety Engineering and Independent Verification department. You will be working across a range of railway projects funded by private organisations (train manufacturers / train operators) and in the public sector i.e. Network Rail. You will contribute to train rolling stock, infrastructure and signalling projects, managing risk assessments and independent verification reviews by subject matter experts.

You will learn to work with key clients and your colleagues, gaining knowledge of how assets in the railway environment are managed to ensure safe integration and use. In completing client work in the consultancy environment, you will develop confidence, high communication, and problem-solving skills.

This is an excellent opportunity to start a rewarding career with clear progression opportunities, within an established, structured framework, benefiting from formal and informal mentoring and work-based learning from industry specialists to complement your continued professional development. Many of our staff are chartered professionals and some attend high profile industry committees. You will also work towards chartership as part of our graduate development programme.

Day-to-day duties will include:

• Supporting clients with long term structured and ad-hoc consultancy advice, presenting critical information on risk management and design conformance. 
• Reviewing engineering standards and the specific requirements, referencing the information sent by clients and managing conformance reviews within the department, utilising resources from other departments for specialist subject areas. 
• Preparation of certificates of verification to formally acknowledge engineering conformance, delivered by UKAS accredited entities.  
• Supporting identification of foreseeable hazards in workshops and developing mitigations using referral to standards, similar systems and engineering arguments, developing complete hazard logs and preparing overall safety justification.  
• Support authoring technical reports describing safety processes and verification plans / reports.
• Engagement with subject matter experts to complete technical reviews to support overall decision-making processes within AtkinsRéalis and for clients, to allow for train, station and signalling operations to take place safely and in accordance with legislation.
• You may be required to visit client sites, support presentations, engage in workshops, be involved in asset inspections, to document the approaches being taken to manage safety decisions.
• Support to define and review operational hazards, ensuring operators manage and update their safety management systems and licenses.
• Support the compiling of health & safety bulletins / reports and review safety critical documentation and plans.
• Support in preparation of audit plans and reports, as well asset inspection activities (stations, trains).
• Engage in business related tasks including project management, proposal writing and preparation of cost estimates.
• Utilising digital tools and platforms to gain hands-on experience with project management and financial controls of projects.
• Being involved in developing existing, and new client relationships, through client satisfaction on deliverables, both in Teams meetings and face to face interactions.